aimazon

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by aimazon 2y ago
We don’t need to trust what they say, we just need to engage in a little critical thinking. What’s the benefit for Ofcom in pursuing tiny websites? There’s no political benefit, no financial benefit… the guidance from Ofcom reaffirms the na
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by aimazon 2y ago
All of those things are buttons to click and ship with every piece of forum software from the last decade. No forum can survive without moderation because of spam so these tools and policies will already be in place on every website with us
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by aimazon 2y ago
Some people are protesting against this law by threatening to shut down their websites or by deleting content. The founder of lfgss explicitly said they’re against the law on principle. I think historic content is very valuable which is why
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by aimazon 2y ago
You’re falling for the big numbers that do not stand up to scrutiny. There’s no such forum shutting down. Are you referring to lfgss? First, it’s not shutting down, second, the user numbers are completely wrong. As is the claim that the pla
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by aimazon 2y ago
I have read every post, every article, every piece of guidance. I’m asking for specifics, not hand waving. What are the actual compliance costs?
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by aimazon 2y ago
The law has absolutely nothing to do with historic content, it has no provisions for or relevance to content published decades ago. Even in the most cautious response to this law, there is no reason to take content offline.
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by aimazon 2y ago
The forum has had less than 100k posts in the last 10 years. Forums and small websites have been killed off by changing consumer behaviour, the shift to big social media platforms. Using big numbers to suggest that the UK Online Safety Act
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by aimazon 2y ago
Headline: 2.6M posts Reality: the forum has negative 358 posts in the last month. The forum has negative ~2k posts over the last 12 months. The forum is so inactive that they’re deleting posts faster than creating them. 8 people have create
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by aimazon 2y ago
obviously some government employees are not providing value for money to the people because that’s just what happens in big organizations (public or private). The point being made by critics of DOGE is not “there’s no waste in the governmen
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by aimazon 2y ago
I was wondering what happened to micro recently (loved the m3o domain). Sorry to hear it’s over. Have you written a post-mortem? I’d love to hear more about it — if you don’t feel too downbeat about it. (is the domain for sale?)
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by aimazon 2y ago
There has been new information since that blog post which has reaffirmed the "this is much ado about nothing" takes because Ofcom have said that they do not want to be a burden on smaller sites. https://www.ofcom.org.uk
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by aimazon 2y ago
You're right. Plus, the overreactions have been walked back or solved in some cases, e.g: LFGSS is going to continue on as a community ran effort which will comply with the risk assessment requirements. Most of the shutdowns are on lon
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by aimazon 2y ago
I am glad to see you renamed to forms from blocks :) I am not saying that your work is bad but even if your work is bad you can make money hand over fist so questions of "good" or "bad" are immaterial[1]. As a solo dev
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by aimazon 2y ago
Travel can be as easy as you want it to be if you are willing to spend money and/or plan. Stay at hotels that are part of a hotel group (e.g: Marriott) and check-in will be seamless. Use airport transfers and someone will be waiting at
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by aimazon 2y ago
I am no fan of the UK but "worst weather on the planet"? The UK's greatest fault is that it is mediocre, it is uninspired, it is neither good nor bad, it is a place with so much potential that realises so little of it. If eco
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by aimazon 2y ago
Small correction: that's the date format used by most every country except the United States . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_date_formats_by_countr...
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by aimazon 2y ago
Major YouTube channels are typically managed by multiple people through the channel management features and brand accounts. I don't think it's possible to even log in to the brand account (which has a generated email address like
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by aimazon 2y ago
I think this is a vast overestimation. The majority of people notice every payment they make every month, a Netflix subscription is a choice that they would not continue to make if they were not using Netflix. Those of us who can afford to
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by aimazon 2y ago
My $100k line of credit against my house was approved today. I plan to pay off my house with the gains.
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by aimazon 2y ago
Yes, you need to get better at filtering. Yes, it has always been like this. Public job listings have always attracted mostly junk. The typical good candidate becomes a good candidate through years of experience. The years of a good candida
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by aimazon 2y ago
Some companies are just very selective, i.e: they're hiring the right people not the best candidate. Most of us get jobs because companies need to fill a role and we're the best candidate of a bad bunch... most of us (whether we h
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by aimazon 2y ago
> I'd love to see people take the real lesson here - an arrest proves nothing of guilt And neither does a guilty verdict in a court of law. An arrest is a data point that we can use to inform our opinion of someone just as a verdict
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by aimazon 2y ago
I think that's just a quirk of HackerOne's username system. The username daniel was previously owned by another account (now known as daniel-hamid) which submitted a bug to Adobe. If you go through @hackermondev's tweets (sta
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by aimazon 2y ago
As you say, it depends on the person but I think for most people an acceptable definition is "deanonymization reveals PII". What qualifies as PII depends on the context/jurisdiction but typically an IP address would be cons
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by aimazon 2y ago
The counter point is that anyone who cares about being anonymous is using methods to disguise their identity that cannot be compromised by this attack, e.g: a VPN. Plus, there are much more effective versions of this attack, like sending a
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by aimazon 2y ago
What's old is new. Does anyone remember the forum signatures that would display the viewers IP address and location on a little wooden signpost held up by a troll-looking creature? https://cdn.geekzone.co.nz/images&#x2F
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by aimazon 2y ago
> If I have troubles receiving SMSs from Germany to German number while in US, would wifi calling icrease the chances of receiving the said SMSs? I'm not up to date on the state of messaging infrastructure but it used to be the case
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by aimazon 2y ago
senior is the new junior senior = junior staff = mid principal = senior
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by aimazon 2y ago
My sweet summer child. Matt has unilateral control over every aspect of Wordpress, including the open-source project and community. He exerts that control, whether that's closing Slack channels or banning members. https://wo
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by aimazon 2y ago
https://i.imgur.com/e0GPhSE.jpeg 1. zak stone, memamp 2. steve huffman, reddit 3. alexis ohanian, reddit 4. emmet shear, twitch 5. ? 6. ? 7. ? 8. jesse tov, https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/simmery

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